Why scrap a perfectly useful catalogue system if it will work with the latest advancements?

Dewey Digger is an interesting attempt to catalogue the web according to the Dewey Decimal System.

To use Dewey Digger just...

• click on a Dewey Decimal category;
• select a topic in that category; Dewey Digger presents twenty-seven sources of information;
• Click on any of the provided sources to see...
  • articles;
  • videos; and
  • images on your chosen topic.

Dewey Digger could be a nic...

Dulcinea Media, host of the academic search engine Sweet Search <http://www.sweetsearch.com/>, has a new free offering for family learning and other practitioners and learners called Sweet Search 2 Day.

Sweet Search 2 Day is a one page stop for good, up to date, web content for...

• history,
  
• language arts,
  
• science,
  
• news,
  
• culture and
  
• other topics.

Visitors to Sweet Search 2 Day will find engaging content, cartoons and image galleries, that are safe for learning envi...

Vaughan Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts four free animated tutorials designed to teach lessons on web research strategies. <http://library.acadiau.ca/help/tutorials.html>

The four tutorials are...

• Credible Sources Count - learners discover how to recognize the validity of information on the Internet. A good tutorial except for the strong emphasis on using domain names for determining validity;
  http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/

• Research It Right - walks lear...

Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for learners and researchers that I mentioned during 2009.

Since then, RefSeek has been building some excellent lists of resources for practitioners and learners.

They include, among other things...

• 25 educational video sites;
• A directory of writing and grammar resources and
• A list of professional development resources for teachers. 

Find out more by visiting http://www.refseek.com/directory/.